yew

Any of several poisonous evergreen coniferous trees or shrubs of the genus Taxus, having scarlet cup-shaped arils and flat needles that are dark green above and yellowish below. Yews contain compounds used in medicine and are often grown as ornamentals.

The wood of any of these trees, especially the durable, fine-grained wood of the Eurasian and North African species Taxus baccata, used in cabinetmaking and for archery bows.

To rise as scum on brine in boiling; yaw.

A jug or jar having a handle extending over the mouth.

A tree of the genus Taxus, the common yew being T. baccata of temperate Europe and Asia.

The wood of the yew-tree.

A shooting-bow made of the wood of the yew.

See yaw.

Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree.

An evergreen tree (Taxus baccata) of Europe, allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. It frequently grows in British churchyards.